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Category Archives: Random Musings
Five or Six Weekends
I pulled into the drive last night and found my first tulip had opened. I took a photo, but it’s blurry. I think you can tell, from what’s goin on around that tulip, what I need to do with my … Continue reading
Posted in Personally, Random Musings
Tagged gardening, lifestyle, Moo, nature, parenting, Sassy, The Mister
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SoCS — March
March. Bleh. March has never been my favorite. The boy one gets older every March. My he’s big now. Now he looks like The Mister only taller and broader. He is magical, what with his mathing and his technologing and … Continue reading
Subtly Subpar Sub
I used to substitute teach quite a bit. I don’t now, as my own children have ruined me for all other children I have grown cynical and generally intolerant of other people’s children. I’m sure your children are exceptional, but the other … Continue reading
Funny Phone Fings
We all tease The Mister because he’s one of those people who types forever to say very little. Are you familiar with THE BUBBLES? For a hundred years I stare at my phone, watchin the little bubbles dance. boy he must … Continue reading
Posted in Random Musings
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SoCS — Short & Sweet
I spent the week shopping. Please remember I hate shopping. Shopping on weekends is the worst. There are so many people out there. So I did it on the weekdays. Cause I was livin like Old Mother Hubbard. I made … Continue reading
One-Liner Wednesday — Mixin Up Kisses
When I drop the kids off at school, I say, “Kiss my face!” When The Mister drops the kids off at school, he says, “Pay the toll!” Or, what one morning, Moo referred to as, “Kiss the Troll!” One-Liner … Continue reading
All Hail the Lawnmower
As I have told you countless times, before I had babies I knew virtually nothing about babies. (I know a lot about babies now. They’re the needy, wriggly, emotionally unstable people I had always suspected, but also they must be burped every … Continue reading
Sometimes It Rains
During an SoCS post about coats, Dan commented “Maddie and I were standing out in the cold rain on Tuesday. She shook off the water and looked at me as if to say ‘Why are we here?’ I was like ‘If you … Continue reading
Double the Whip
In honor of our beautiful warm weather here in February, I share with you a photo from the summer of 2004. My parents came to stay with the kids for the afternoon. When we returned, Sassy, almost two, wanted ‘some’ too. … Continue reading
Notes on Fictional Business
Do y’all have notes at work? This is a thing. Like when you call the cable company, and you’re all, “My upstairs DVR doesn’t record channel 5,” and the guy says “Mrs. Mottern, we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you … Continue reading


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